in recent socio-economic state it is not possible to have different sets of prosthetic cardiac valves available in the operating room before open-heart surgery for valvular replacement. in this study the diameter of the aortic valve ring measured in 2-d echocardiography was compared with the size of the aortic prosthetic valves implanted for the patients with aortic valvular disease. the purpos...

The objective was to verify the association between time needed for room cleaning (TLPS) and the surgery size, and related advantages and difficulties faced by the circulator of the room asszgned to this task. A mixed method, with a transverse quantitative, retrospective approach, using a sample of 3095 surgeries performed,from January to June 2011, and a qualitative approach using a Thematic C...

In this work needle like hydroxy apatite were synthesized in a reverse microemulsion droplets of water in cyclohexane, separated by a cationic surfactant and co-surfactant, in the presence of Na-polyacrylate (PAA) as an anionic polyelectrolyte. Characterization of the as formed HAp nanoparticles at the room temperature were carried out by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared s...

Medical linear accelerators are one of the most widespread methods for cancer treatment. Despite their advantages, unwanted photoneutrons are produced by high energy linacs. This photoneutrons are as undesired doses to patients and a significant problem for radiation protection of the staffs and patients. Photoneutrons radiological risk must be evaluated because of their high LET and range.in o...

background and purpose: upon centuries, wars have taken over countries due to theadvancement of sophisticated warfare,causingserious injuries among soldiers. nurses are directly involved in preoperative and postsurgical patient care. one of the most remarkable contributions of the iranian operating room nurses was to provide medical care for wounded soldiers in field hospitals during the iran-i...

BACKGROUND Although short-term exposure to ambient particulate matter has increasingly been linked with cardiovascular diseases, it is not quite clear how physical characteristics of particles, such as particle size may be responsible for the association. This study aimed at investigating whether daily changes in number or mass concentrations of accurately size-segregated particles in the range...

the nanoparticles of gold doped with various percentage of copper (cu 10%, 25%, 75%) were synthesized by wet-chemical method at room temperature. copper (ii) sulfate and gold (iii) chloride trihydride was taken as the metal precursor and ascorbic acid as a reducing agent and anhydride maleic as surfactant. the reaction is performed with high-speed stirring at room temperature under nitrogen atm...

Based on natural ventilation design scheme for main transformer room of an indoor substation, different air distribution schemes were obtained by changing height and size of air inlets and outlets. Three-dimensional simulation of air distribution was conducted for the transformer room by using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method. Ventilation & cooling effect of different indoor ventilatio...